to anyone who played Bloodstone
readpaulb
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To any of you who played 007 Bloodstone...
Did I miss something? This game had very mediocre (to very poor) reviews. I'm not saying it was the best game ever, but the controls were fluid, it basically played like the Uncharted series. It also had a fairly good story, even though it was short and somewhat predictable towards the end.
Even the very basic driving sequences were nice straightforward ways to break up the action. My only real complaints are the shortness of the campaign, and the focus aim, which was generally useless and just a way to get through areas faster.
Personally I'm disappointed there won't be a sequel but I was mainly just curious how others felt as I finally got around to playing it and enjoyed it quite a bit, especially compared to junk such as 007 Legends, which was reviewed only slightly worse critically.
Paul
Did I miss something? This game had very mediocre (to very poor) reviews. I'm not saying it was the best game ever, but the controls were fluid, it basically played like the Uncharted series. It also had a fairly good story, even though it was short and somewhat predictable towards the end.
Even the very basic driving sequences were nice straightforward ways to break up the action. My only real complaints are the shortness of the campaign, and the focus aim, which was generally useless and just a way to get through areas faster.
Personally I'm disappointed there won't be a sequel but I was mainly just curious how others felt as I finally got around to playing it and enjoyed it quite a bit, especially compared to junk such as 007 Legends, which was reviewed only slightly worse critically.
Paul
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That being said, I feel like 007 Legends should be tried for war crimes.
1) The Spy Who Loved Me 2) On Her Majesty's Secret Service 3) GoldenEye 4) Casino Royale 5) Goldfinger
First time I've ever been disappointed in a Eurocom 007 game. TWINE (N64) and Nightfire were great.
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100% agree with this. Superior multiplayer on Legends and goldeneye reloaded but bloodstone really felt the most like I was playing inside of a bond movie. Even considering that I found Legends multiplayer better than reloaded neither game felt like anything other than a call of duty game with less options. It certainly never made me feel like bond
Bloodstone was very underrated. Remembering my game play of it, I was impressed. The fluidity of the movement of characters, the multiplayer, the story, it was all good. I must replay this soon.
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It really is an excellent game, if you haven't already played it I suggest you give it a try. Really plays like a story and has an almost movie quality story.
Same here...certainly better than most Bond games....
The environment graphics were very well done, the racing scenes were spectacular. I loved some of the movie like sequences: jumping in front of a giant tunnel bore/drill thing, towers crashing into the water just as you drive by in a speed boat, racing in a classic Aston Martin. I like how there was both driving and shooting. I like the 3rd person perspective. Both Daniel Craig a Judy Dench (sp?) act in the movie. Since MGM put a hold on Bond movies during the great recession they had to make an original story, so that is why this game is not a movie tie-in.
A lot of the criticism was due to the fact that when it came out AAA titles offered much deeper worlds with more to do. If BS came out a few years prior it probably would have done much better. The avatars didn't look too great and the stories were very linear. That being said I liked the original score and original story. Call me crazy it just brought back that Bond movie feeling I would get as a kid. It even had a Bond girl and lots of exotic locations.
I so wish they would pick up where BS left off. I am so disappointed by the obsession of first person shooters. Not sure why anyone liked Golden Eye Reloaded. To me GER was very generic and boring. Nothing Bond about it for me. QoS had horrible graphics and was similarly boring.
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My only real criticism is 007 difficulty, it was probably the most frustrating/difficult thing I've ever done in gaming except for maybe the first two Halo games on Legendary difficulty. Particularly the end, even if I'm just playing on an easy difficulty that bit with Rak and his aircraft gives me Vietnam flashbacks. Timing those jumps and hiding from the machine guns. I got so mad at one point, at that part when you clear out that last big area of bad guys then get in the elevator to go up, somehow Rak was actually able to kill me when I was riding the elevator up. It was a glitch or something, because you're supposed to be safe, there's nowhere to hide of any cover and the next time I got that far I was fine going up. But before I got back there I had to fight that big battle all over again. I completed it once just to get the achievement and the satisfaction of having done it, but I've never played it on that difficulty again, there's nothing fun about it. As somebody said, Live, Die, Repeat. I don't know, maybe there are some good guides out there these days, tactics or exploits that make it easier, when I played it the game was new and I just beat it with trial and error... and throwing the controller around a lot and cursing.
I wish we could get gambling back in Bond games. Remember when you had to play Black Jack in the TWINE PS1 game during that casino level? That was great.
Man I so wish I could play this game online. Never played it during its launch so I missed out on multiplayer, same as the QoS game. Too bad the game has no bots like Nightfire does.